THE NAVAL WAR.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17264, 4 September 1916, Page 8

THE NAVAL WAR.

THE NORTH SEA.

ENEMY WARSHIPS NOT SEEN'

ZEPPELINS INCREASINGLY

ACTIVE.

Australian auJ N.Z. Cable Association, * CHRISTTANIA, September 1..

Steamers report that scarcely any German warships were encountered in tho North Sea, hut that an increasing number of Zeppelins are pati oiling and communicating by wireless with submarine?. ■ RAN THE BLOCKADE. ,GERMAN STEAMER’S EXPLOIT. NEW YORK. September 1. \ Berlin wireless message states that the German steamer Marie, which arrived at Batavia (Java) m May, ran tho blockade in the North Sea. Iho steamer chided three lines of blockade. Onco she was within hvo yards ot a. British gunboat. .. , She succeeded in takmg_ supplies to tho East African forces. She was hit many times during a bombardment by a warship. '

STOPPING MESSAGES. CURTAILING WIRELESS • FACILITIES. COPENHAGEN, September 1. With a view to preventing communications with warships Sweden prohibits German merchantmen in Swedish harbours using wireless. THE PETROLITE AFFAIR. AUSTRIAN REPLY TO AMERICA. NEW YORK, September L Austria has sent a reply to the American protest against the attack on the steamer Petrolite in the Mediterranean, llie reply is believed to- be concilia* t'ory.

THE SUBMARINES. ' GERMAN VESSEL SUNK. BRITISH METHODS COPIED. (Received September 3, 5.5 p.m.) COPENHAGEN, September 2. A German submarine was sunk off Sonderburg and several of the crew were killed. • Swedish captains report that the Germans are imitating the British antisubmarine methods in the North Sea.